FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
MACBETH
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Question
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He is afraid of him as he has a fierce reputation
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He is too busy trying to find Malcolm to fight others
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Because he feels he has enough Macduff blood on his hands already
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He doesn’t; he’s trying to find him
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Detailed explanation-1: -Blood, specifically Duncan’s blood, serves as the symbol of that guilt, and Macbeth’s sense that “all great Neptune’s ocean” cannot cleanse him-that there is enough blood on his hands to turn the entire sea red-will stay with him until his death.
Detailed explanation-2: -Act 5, scene 8 Macduff finds Macbeth, who is reluctant to fight with him because Macbeth has already killed Macduff’s whole family and is sure of killing Macduff too if they fight.
Detailed explanation-3: -After he kills Duncan, Macbeth comes to Lady Macbeth with his hands covered in blood. Horrified by his act, Macbeth laments that not even all of “Neptune’s ocean” would be enough to clean his hands. The blood on Macbeth’s hands symbolizes the guilt he feels for murdering Duncan.
Detailed explanation-4: -He realizes, in act 3, that “blood will have blood”-he knows that he will have to suffer for his murders. Macbeth recognizes that just as he murdered people to gain power, others on a quest for power may murder him to gain what he has. There is a vicious cycle of bloodshed and violence as a result of Macbeth’s actions.
Detailed explanation-5: -’Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather the multitudinous seas incarnadine, making the green one red’ Macbeth (Act II, Sc. II). Macbeth laments in this passage that all the oceans in the world wouldn’t be capable of washing the blood from his hands.